![]() Evolve Stage 2 on Steam includes a beta branch called "legacyevolve – The Original Evolve Product." It's completely separate and visibly different, but the local profile settings I'd made in Evolve Stage 2 carried over into Legacy Evolve after I installed it and started a match. It may also be possible that Evolve Stage 2 is somehow piggybacking on Legacy Evolve's relay server. We wondered, after confirming that Evolve Stage 2 really works, if maybe the servers have actually been there all along, but nobody noticed until the Discord started talking about it. Some in the Evolve Discord theorize, maybe not entirely seriously, that a bored 2K engineer went rogue and flipped a switch in a server room somewhere without telling anyone. So what's actually happening here? Nobody seems to know. But the real mystery is that 2K says it hasn't actually changed anything at all: A rep confirmed that the original Evolve relay server, which enables players to find each other for peer-to-peer play, went down and was fixed, but said the dedicated servers that Stage 2 relies on-and that were switched off in 2018-were not touched, remain offline, and are definitely not coming back. The return of Evolve Stage 2 came with no announcement at all from 2K Games, and the game itself remains unlisted on Steam: It's still there if you have a direct link, but it's hidden from searches so nobody's going to accidentally stumble across it and start playing. Me and the boys dressed up for a big night on the town (Image credit: 2K Games) But unexpectedly-and without explanation-Evolve Stage 2 started working again, too. They complained, 2K fixed the problem, and peer-to-peer functionality in Evolve was returned. The only thing left for players following the end of server support was battling bots in training mode.Īnd so it remained until June of this year, when a relay server that handles Legacy Evolve's matchmaking went down, leaving the small but dedicated community on the Evolve Reunited 2.0 Discord unable to play together. Peer-to-peer functionality remained for Legacy Evolve-2K's name for the original game after it released the free-to-play version-but Evolve Stage 2, which relied on dedicated servers, was completely shut down. We enjoyed that iteration too, but it didn't fare any better, and 2K pulled the plug in June 2018. We enjoyed our time with it, but it failed to catch fire with players, and a little over a year later it went free to play as Evolve Stage 2. ![]() I doubt now, even with a petition, F2P Evolve will see the light of day on consoles, although it would be nice to see the model given one final chance on consoles.Left 4 Dead and Back 4 Blood developer Turtle Rock Studios originally released Evolve in early 2015, and unfortunately it did not go well. When the game was originally announced, I always thought personally that it should have been free to play, especially considering the kind of game that it is and it's limited content. Evolve could have potentially been a goliath (all pun intended) on the F2P console scene, with more numbers playing, and more people putting money down for the microtransactions. If the F2P version was on console however, i'm sure it would have a decent population, as our F2P selection is exceptionally limited right now, and even then, only some of those titles are decent in my opinion. While I understand they used PC as the testing ground for the shift to a free to play model, due to it being easier to patch than console - the problem is that the PC market is huge when it comes to F2P games especially, and it easily gets buried under the rubble. The views of the moderation team do not reflect the view of Microsoft or its subsidiaries. Note: We are not affiliated with Microsoft or its subsidiaries in any official capacity. ![]() Showoff Sunday - all pictures of achievements, gamerscore, controllers, custom art/mods, battle stations, and so forth are only allowed as posts on Sundays. posts must be within the weekly megathread. and posts must be properly tagged or they will be removed. No advertising, selling, buying, trading, self pomotion or asking for free stuff. Memes, image macros, reaction gifs, polls, petitions, friend requests, and surveys are not allowed as posts. Spoilers and NSFW must be properly marked.Įnabling piracy, jailbreaking, hacking, fraud, account trading/sharing, region switching, etc is not allowed. Posts must be directly related to Xbox and link to the source.įollow Reddiquette. News, reviews, previews, rumors, screenshots, videos and more! Follow us on Twitter! Subreddit Podcast! Join our club Check out our official wiki page Subreddit Rules ![]()
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